SickleYield opened this issue on Sep 10, 2008 · 33 posts
210x2 posted Fri, 12 September 2008 at 12:43 AM
Lol, first of all SickleYield, don't ever be worried over what DAZ thinks, says and or does. If that company were any more full of sh!t, they would have to apply for a sewage treatment plant license to stay in business. Jetsmart has a good memory, Daz did put up a stink, I remember the thread. It was about clothing design and how to make clothing meshes. Someone brought up using retopo and shrink wrapping tools to build the mesh, and the moderators flipped out. They were like "oh that's stealing from Daz, and that's cheating the company and the customers" and all kinds of Daz Kool-Aid crew speak. Typically they ended up losing the argument and basically had to eat their own words. Daz has every right to protect it's property, however as pointed out, no geometry is used. Shrink wrapping produces a wholly different mesh with different vertice counts and locations. Then the argument moderators tried to make was "well if it copies the exact shape of the mesh than that is stealing". By that logic anyone who makes tight fitting clothes for a Daz model is stealing from Daz. What difference does it make how or what tools were used to make the mesh. As long as you don't copy their mesh and or alter a copied version of the mesh, they have nothing but the hollow sound of their own empty threats. Their argument pretty much fell completely apart at that point of the thread. Besides look at PhilC's Poser tool box, it has a shrink wrapping type script that uses primitives in Poser that shrink nicely to the Victoria line. The clothing can then be redistributed, including for commercial purpose. Daz hasn’t tried to sue good ole’ Phil out of business (not yet anyway), seriously I wouldn't worry to much about it if I were you.